Deuteronomy 19:5

19:5 Suppose he goes with someone else ¹  to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax ²  to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose ³  from the handle and strikes ⁴  his fellow worker ⁵  so hard that he dies. The person responsible ⁶  may then flee to one of these cities to save himself. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 25:13-14

25:13 You must not have in your bag different stone weights, ⁸  a heavy and a light one. ⁹  25:14 You must not have in your house different measuring containers, ¹⁰  a large and a small one.

[19:5]  ¹ tn Heb “his neighbor” (so NAB, NIV); NASB “his friend.”

[19:5]  ² tn Heb “and he raises his hand with the iron.”

[19:5]  ³ tn Heb “the iron slips off.”

[19:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “finds.”

[19:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

[19:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person responsible for his friend’s death) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “and live.”

[25:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “a stone and a stone.” The repetition of the singular noun here expresses diversity, as the following phrase indicates. See IBHS 116 §7.2.3c.

[25:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “a large and a small,” but since the issue is the weight, “a heavy and a light one” conveys the idea better in English.

[25:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “an ephah and an ephah.” An ephah refers to a unit of dry measure roughly equivalent to five U.S. gallons (just under 20 liters). On the repetition of the term to indicate diversity, see IBHS 116 §7.2.3c.